Krukowski basically goes "Ransom" on
the platforms, saying artists should cut their losses and instead
focus on starving the music distributors:

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This reveals the sad, brutal truth about the whole royalty rate
argument: musicians are probably lucky to be getting what they're
getting.

That may seem reductive.

But the "Napster generation" is so called because they grew up
with the expectation of paying zilch for their
music. Even Krukowski has
admitted that he subscribes to Spotify (we're not
sure if these Tweets now mean he's off it).

The folks at the Trichordist blog make a similar point
today, writing that Google is an even greater offender than
either Pandora or Spotify when it comes to compensating artists —
because basically, Google doesn't:

One of the primary reasons Spotify pays so little is
because so many more pay nothing at all. Google
alone is tracking millions and millions of infringement notices
to over 200,000 known illegally operating businesses.

For those who unaware, Ad Sponsored Piracy is the mechanism by
which illegal and infringing online businesses get paid to
display advertising on their sites. These sites do not license
any of the music they distribute nor do they share any of this
revenue with artists or rights holders. In other
words Silicon Valley corporate interests pocket 100% of
the money and pay artists nothing.